“What humans apparently missed was the larger pattern surrounding it.”
And yet the best models still give bad answers a high percentage of the time, lie, and make up links, and possess nothing remotely resembling human intelligence. All of the popular models work by recognizing patterns, so it is not surprising that it might be helpful with a problem which can be solved by recognizing patterns. Although ironically the model itself likely has no actual understanding of what it solved.
A new truism...